Felony Murder Liability for Homicides by Police: Too Unfair and Too Much to Bear
Felony Murder Liability for Homicides by Police: Too Unfair and Too Much to Bear On November 23, 2020, a fifteen-year-old boy was gunned down by five Oklahoma City police officers,…
Of Law and Men
Of Law and Men I, an Indian-American transgender woman, share stories of my sexual escapades with seven Trump supporters to move us towards new mountains in jurisprudential scholarship. I do…
Reframing Hate
Reframing Hate The concept and naming of “hate crime,” and the adoption of special laws to address it, provoked controversy and raised fundamental questions when they were introduced in the…
U.S. Hate Crime Trends: What Disaggregation of Three Decades of Data Reveals About a Changing Threat and an Invisible Record
Hate Crime Trends: What Disaggregation of Three Decades of Data Reveals About a Changing Threat and an Invisible Record When prejudice-related data are combined and analyzed over time, critical information…
The Conundrums of Hate Crime Prevention
The Conundrums of Hate Crime Prevention The recent surge in hate crimes alongside persistent concerns over policing and prisons has catalyzed new interest in hate crime prevention outside the criminal…
A Trauma-Centered Approach to Addressing Hate Crimes
A Trauma-Centered Approach to Addressing Hate Crimes A dominant justification for hate crime laws is that they serve a crucial expressive function—sending messages of valuation to victims, and of denunciation…
Pick the Lowest Hanging Fruit: Hate Crime Law and the Acknowledgment of Racial Violence
Pick the Lowest Hanging Fruit: Hate Crime Law and the Acknowledgment of Racial Violence The has had remedies aimed at racial violence since the Ku Klux Klan Act was passed…
Holding Government Officials Accountable by Applying the State-Created Danger Doctrine to Cases of Suicide
Holding Government Officials Accountable by Applying the State-Created Danger Doctrine to Cases of Suicide Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act provides a means for plaintiffs whose civil rights have…
Criminalizing ESG: A Framework to Hold Corporations Accountable for Incorrect ESG Disclosures
Criminalizing ESG: A Framework to Hold Corporations Accountable for Incorrect ESG Disclosures Investors are increasingly interested in corporate environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) data, so the SEC has faced pressure…
Judicial Resistance to New York’s 2020 Criminal Legal Reforms
Judicial Resistance to New York's 2020 Criminal Legal Reforms This Article seeks to examine judicial opposition to New York’s 2020 criminal justice reforms in the context of existing scholarship on…
Habit, Crime, and Culpability
Habit, Crime, and Culpability Courts and scholars long have distinguished the wrongdoing component of criminal liability from the culpability component. In the old days, wrongdoing was thought to be crime’s…
Public Records Aren’t Public: Systemic Barriers to Measuring Court Functioning & Equity
Public Records Aren't Public: Systemic Barriers to Measuring Court Functioning & Equity In a new era of computational legal scholarship, computational tools exist with the capacity to quickly and efficiently…